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Show JURORS INDICT STRIKING UNION AFL Unit Faces Charqe In (J. S. Capital Tie-up WASHINGTON. Oct. 12 (INS) A federal grand Jury today charged that a jurisdictional strike was a violation of criminal law, as the U. S. government obtained Its first Indictments In Its nation-wide Investigation In-vestigation into the vast building Industry. The grand Jury handed down Indictments In-dictments against the District of Columbia local of the powerful AFL Teamsters' union and five of its officials because a jurisdictional jurisdic-tional strike tied up millions of dollars of government construction construc-tion in the national capital. If the government obtains convictions con-victions in the case, it will hold a powerful weapon in preventing stoppage of construction work. Thurman Arnold, head of the trust-busting division of the attorney attor-ney general's office, in launching the nation-wide Inquiry had charged that monopolistic practices prac-tices hsd been holding up recovery recov-ery In the building Industry. Recovery In the building Industry Indus-try must be obtained for national prosperity. Arnold Insisted. In the Washington case, the local lo-cal union snd its five officials were accused of violstion of the Sherman antitrust act by using a jurisdictional strike to stop work on seversl government buildings. It was alleged that the jurisdictional jurisdic-tional strike they called was a restraint re-straint of trade. Named in true bills were Teamsters' Team-sters' union local No. 639 and Thomas O'Brien, Stuart M. Key-ser, Key-ser, Charles J. Bell, Lin wood A. Trainham and Aubrey Stream. Similar grand jury Investigations, Investiga-tions, according to the justice department, de-partment, are under way In Cleveland Cleve-land and New York. The Investigations Investi-gations are aimed not only at labor la-bor practices but at all phases of the building Industry. |